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The third and final set of notes from the HISTORE workshop comes from Group 3. This group was chaired by Jonathan Blaney, who is managing the HISTORE project but is primarily employed on the British History Online website, Connected Histories, and other IHR digital projects.

Group 3 breakout (chaired by Jonathan Blaney)

lack of joined-up thinking

no support from faculty

no support generally

collaboration between disciplines

not even the initial knowledge – no demand therefore

funding pressures mean you’re afraid to experiment

not even Zotero! the initial costs are too high, even if it might be more efficient in the end

add them to skills workshops – show that your PhD is the complete package

lots of independent historians are interested or would be if they knew

seeing the relevance is the key

case studies are important

big showcase projects may be offputting

practical, small-scale examples

texts not necessarily freely available

need guidance on copyright – people know about traditional copyright but not digital copyright

Twitter!

Google Hangouts

need to enthuse people – virally

rating/guidance

people in academia should be used to the intellectual challenge of learning tools

we don’t see the failures

citation – rules not up to date

how-to-cite boxes are great

the desire for “everything” to be freely available, particularly for interested people without institutional affiliation

bringing data together in a bucket, so digital tools can be used on it once, rather than iteratively

encouraging a habit of recording search methods (data, databases, search terms, date of access) so searches/queries can be replicated